SAW VI (Mrs Leconte)
In the opening scene of saw 6, they show the rusted mechanism working. The main character in the film which is "jigsaw" makes his own traps, and how the mechanism works. The shot then zooms out of a key hole opening a door and shows the film production company's logo "Lionsgate". The font of the writing looks dull and brownish colour but the background looks like red clouds, this can indicate to fire and hell.
The screen fades into black and then fades into "twisted pictures" which gets barbed wires weaving through it and then a spike going thorugh the wires then tightening them. The wires look very disturbing and look like it has a little bit of red on it, which can mean it has blood. After the wires go the letters all has marks on them which can indicate to scars on a humans body. The sounds of the wires are very screeching and disturbing. The scars of on the letters and the fiery background on "lionsgate" can give an idea to the audience the genre of the movie. When the spike lets go of the wires a sudden flash happened and we get the sound of the thunder. Thunder is mostly used in horror movies and people usually get scared of thunder. In horror or thriller movies they use it to show the murderer's face in a sudden flash to give the audience suspense and fear, its also most commonly used when something bad is about to happen.
The screen then starts to show someone with a trap on her head and a insect crawling on her arm. Insects are most commonly things that people dislike and in horror/thriller movies they are irritating. The scene shows the girl and writing of the producers again with a disturbing violin playing with a very high tone. At the end of all the action it shows the girl and zooms out of her face slowly then shows another quick flash of her and suddenly cuts straight to the title with the echo of her scream.
The title is metallic and has blood on it, the audience gets disturbed of the film already and looking at the action happening at the opening scene they can guess the genre.
Cansu your analysis of Saw IV is good,as well as your visual examples. You show that you are able to identify the generic conventions of a thriller film however you now must state the directors decision for using such conventions and the message it conveys to the audience.
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